Board Information and Control Systems

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Department of Measurement

Synopsis:

The course is intended for students of cybernetics and measurements branch. It includes a survey of contemporaneous state of used board information and control systems of both civil and military aircraft including GPWS, TCAS, INS, FADEC FMS and FBW systems. The course is focused on their hierarchical structures, subsystems and their interconnection. Certain attention is devoted to the aircraft engines, their control and state monitoring. Basic information is given about military aircrafts and their weapon systems. Part of the course pay attention on simulation and visualization technology and area of unmanned aerial vehicles.

Requirements:

Aircraft Instruments

Flight Control Systems

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Course introduction, analogue and digital board information systems and their hierarchical structures.

2. Aircraft display systems, their programming and safety aspects.

3. Reliability principles of board information and control systems and subsystems.

4. Primary and secondary displays and their connection to flight and navigation systems.

5. Military aircraft information systems - head-up displays, light panels and central alert.

6. Involvement of INS in aircraft control.

7. Information and control systems of UAV airplanes.

8. Information and control system for light and sport aircrafts.

9. Aircraft engine monitoring and control systems (FADEC, etc.).

10. Flight management systems, their structure and classification, FBW (Fly-by-Wire) system.

11. Crew training systems, flight and procedure simulators.

12. Airbus A320, Boeing 737 and ATR72 flight simulators.

13. Weapons systems, their sorts and management. Ways of electronic fight.

14. Ground Proximity Warning System (GPWS) and Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS).

Syllabus of tutorials:

1. Introduction, homework assignment.

2. Introduction into development environment necessary for homework solution.

3. Aircraft industry test equipments - VZLU.

4. Presentation of the first homework part.

5. Control system of small commercial aircraft L270 - AERO Vodochody.

6. Training system of L410 aircraft.

7. Information and control system Airbus 310 - CSA.

8. Home project consultation.

9. Information, weapon and control system of light combat aircraft L159 - AERO Vodochody.

10. Laboratory measurement, set of laboratory tasks.

11. Aircraft guidance in horizontal plane via Matlab simulation

12. Boeing 737 flight simulator - CSA.

13. Home project presentation.

14. Ending of seminars.

Study Objective:

Study materials:

1. Lewis, S.: Aircraft Control and Simulation. Willey New York, 1992.

2. McRuer, Ashkenas, Graham: Aircraf Dynamics and Automatic Control. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1990.

3. Nelson, R., C.: Flight Stability and Automatic Control. McGraw-Hill, 1989, 1998 ISBN: 0-07-046273-9.

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Further information:

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Cybernetics and Measurements - Control Engineering- structured studies (compulsory elective course)
• Cybernetics and Measurements - Artificial Intelligence- structured studies (compulsory elective course)
• Cybernetics and Measurements - Measurement and Instrumentation Systems- structured studies (compulsory elective course)
• Cybernetics and Measurements - Aeronautical Engineering and Control Systems- structured studies (compulsory elective course)